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Forget Mad Cow; Sick Fish Are a Greater Health Hazard

January 12, 2004 by Laura Baker

If, after the recent mad cow scare, you thought eating fish was a safer dinner option, think again. While the health effects associated with mad cow disease are severe, the scope of the problems remai...
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Dissatisfaction the Only Thing Growing on Crowded Campus

January 12, 2004 by Julian Weissglass

Over Winter Break, I drove onto campus and walked around. I was struck by the changes I have seen since I came here in 1967. The campus has become much more crowded and much less pleasing over the pas...
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The State of the State

January 9, 2004 by Tiye Baldwin

A well-delivered speech can give you a gut feeling. Words are emotionally coded. They carry inferences, demands and promises. Coming from the mouth of a masterful politician and/or actor, well-choreog...
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Speaking My Language

January 9, 2004 by The Weatherhuman

Made it through the first week. It's nice to be back in school. In case you didn't notice, the 'human didn't have much to say on the academic front last quarter. Yeah. Didn't do too well.
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Government Clowns Scare America

January 9, 2004 by Loren Williams

With the United States on Code Orange, now is a great time to consider the role that fear plays in public policy. You could argue that it doesn't. There are, after all, no laws against spiders, ninjas...
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The Artful Dodger: An Early Start for Failure

January 8, 2004 by Drew Atkins

They say the best way to guarantee you won't do something is to make it a New Year's resolution. Look at me for living proof of this adage. We're only a few days into the year and already I'm an utter...
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Scouring Dregs of Media for Guilty Pleasures

January 8, 2004 by Katherine Drabiak

It's considered the detritus of the media, an investment in waste management. The presence of reality television, low-scale comedy and fashion periodicals induce an automatic gag reflex with a covert ...
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This Ain’t Sea World, Kids

January 7, 2004 by Kate Rice

The storm season is upon us, the new students are settled in and the parties are plentiful. The mundane mid-year slump is hitting, so hookups at this time of year are particularly shameless, and just ...
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Inquiring ‘Humans Want to Know

January 7, 2004 by The Weatherhuman

You didn't think the weatherhuman was going to miss Britney's wedding day did you? No sir, I was there. I rode in on the same cold wind that will soon blow her completely out of the music business and...
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Mad, You Say?

January 7, 2004 by

Good to see that DNA testing has determined that one crazy cow was from Canada. I knew no American would carry that irrational disease.
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I.V. Police Have Priorites, Even for Jell-O

January 7, 2004 by Mark Signa

I sometimes see a fight at one party but the police are too busy giving someone an MIP (Minor in Possession of Alcohol citation) down the street to notice. Do the police have a priority system on how ...
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Drugstore Cowboy: Two Thousand and Four?!

January 5, 2004 by Cory Anthony

Here we are. The beginning of the Year of Our Lord 2004 and the tail-end of the Chinese Year of the Ram, which ends on Jan 21.
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No Cost, No Receipt

January 5, 2004 by

Back to school time - I'd call it Hell if it weren't so fucking freezing outside.
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The Artful Dodger: The Cultural Aftershocks

January 5, 2004 by Drew Mackie

I spent Winter Break in a television trance. But whenever I broke away from VH1's marathon sessions of C-grade celebrities telling me what to remember from the '70s and '80s, I checked out the newspap...
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